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As the sole male bearing our family name, I had the ideal of being "a decent father and husband" as my main motivation for self-growth during my younger years. It's a rather impossible task (since I believe that I'll be shitty on both roles forever) but it helped me work on my finances...

Relevant wiki articles: Space Warfare United States Space Force This topic piqued my interest since Trump announced the proposal for the United States Space Force a month ago. On one hand, arms race tend to produce civilian tech faster which means we might become a spacefaring species sooner...

So the wife and I got a short 4-day course on C (which I think is the granddaddy of all programming languages) and was quite hooked. Should've taken programming when I was younger but my teacher said it's never too late. Our teacher recommended that I study more advanced languages such as C++...

So our team just came from a whole day social event yesterday. The office ladies were clocking a lot of hours too so my pride as a leader wont let me just sit down and instruct people. Autism be damned, leaders must be at the frontlines. Suffered several mini meltdowns during the course of the...

Mainstream article Actual paper Anyways, there's a paper that says that life is seeded via virus and microorganism - containing comets like the old theory of panspermia. They speculate that these viruses and microorganisms forced the evolution of Cambrian life. Case and point is the octopus...

Context: This happened a few weeks ago. Shes ok now. Anyways, my wife was a bit sick for a night so i did the housework and then check on her to see if shes ok. In the morning after she continued to worsen so i cancelled going to work and got her to the hospital. So i told the doctor every...

I was inspired to write this post after the discussions about tropes on one of the posts here: I think the heroine's journey is poorly written in current media. As a nerd, that simply won't stand. I like good stories regardless of gender. Anyways, I'll discuss two different comic superheroines...

So i dreamed yesterday that a friend of mine showed me his latest computer which is a bald human whose torso is fused into a cylindrical machine. I asked what kind of 40k heresy is this. He said that the human part is actually grown from non-sentient human tissues so its kosher or something...

And got a carbohydrates loss out of the deal. That's not good so my friends and I ate at a breakfast buffet afterwards. Now I got my carbs back with interest. Im a businessman. :elephant: My calves are killing me though. :segen:

After months of badgering from my parents to lose more weight for the wedding pics, I finally gave in and enrolled in a gym. Honestly, I find it soothing since the rushing blood helps my brain to process more stuff while giving me enough incentive to eat and sleep right. The amenities are...

Based on your responses on my work ethic thread, I started not drinking coffee for a few days now. I substituted milk or generic warm water to help me cope with the urge to drink more coffee. It works for me, so far. I'm sleeping more soundly at night and working better in the morning. Life...

Okay, so I recovered a bit from the California jet lag and currently de-briefing the peeps here in our University. There's something gnawing in mind about the whole trip: I CAN'T KEEP UP! It's quite a refreshing yet worrying change of pace since back here at home it's the people I work...

Can't you just drink the milk and then eat the cereals as crunchy snacks?

So the fiance and I went to a gaming shop to look for new board games. As we entered the shop we saw a bunch of nerds playing Warhammer40k with a small crowd looking at the match. I wanted to look at the match itself but she wanted to get out of the shop. I hesitantly followed her outside and...

While browsing for makeup for wedding day (with me thinking all the way why can't we just get one of my sisters to do that stuff): Me: You look pretty dear. Her: Does my make up look shiny? Me: Uh, I think light just reflects that way. Her: so it looks like matte? Me: Uh, you don't look...

I was listening to Art Bell archives when I came to an idea of having emphatic weapons or vehicles. I'm not saying having a talking sword or what not but rather a device that can sense the mood of their user. There's a study where they found that certain emotions trigger more self-reported...

NASA Press Release NASA just announced that they have discovered 7 rocky planets circling a star that is 40 light-years away from us. These rocky planets are found within the star's habitable zone and might contain liquid water that is necessary for life. Who knows, perhaps alien life is...

Layman version Actual journal article The EM drive is an "impossible" propulsion system that utilizes microwaves instead of bulky rocket fuel. If this thing actually makes it into production then space travel would be dirt cheap. It's called impossible since it seems not to follow the...

Layperson version Actual gov't proposal document There's a federal gov't move to have the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus affinis) as an endangered species. It is not good for food security and biodiversity to lose an important pollinator. Anyways, the top reasons of its decline is...

I was talking with my fiancee the other day about her stay in Germany. She suggests that i was too cute for the country since my pronounciation of German terms are too soft and that i smile too often which may unsettle the natives. Anyways i want to ask if Germans really dont like to smile...

Any Ingress players here? I was able to join this game due to Pokemon Go. It's a nice time-waster while waiting for the lured pokestop to spawn a new Pokemon. I guess it has it's own charm yet is more difficult than the more child-friendly PoGo. The players also seem to be more hardcore than...

‘Like it’s been nuked’: Millions of bees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes This is why you don't go to the hype train ASAP whenever a new exotic disease comes up. Now you guys get even more dead bees. Colonies are already suffering colony collapse disorder and we just have...

Kinda weird feeling today, I'm not sure if it's laziness or just fatigue. So I spoke for two sessions and moderated another session on a seminar yesterday at our university in front of several researchers from around the country. That was from morning to around 3:00 PM. I spent the rest of...

An Epochal Discovery: A Habitable Planet Orbits Our Neighboring Star Seems like our neighbor Proxima Centauri is harboring Proxima Centauri b, a rocky tidally-locked planet that resides in its "Goldilocks" habitable zone. Nicknamed "the Pale Red Dot" this planet may be able to support life if...

When Dallas police used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper, they also kicked off an ethical debate about technology’s use as a crime-fighting weapon. We were discussing if AI /robots should have rights a few days before and I found this interesting tidbit after the Dallas incident (I...

Now the EU wants to give rights to robots! Basic labour rights could be extended to robots. The European Parliament's legal affairs committee is considering plans to declare them 'electronic persons'. The machines would be free to own and trade money, claim copyright on creative work and...

http://technology.nasa.gov/patents In case you are interested. There's tons of public domain that can be worked into new tech.

While looking at a ufo site cause I'm bored and I'm missing Sinny, I came looking at the so called alien implants that were obtained from abductees. They claim that there's no inflammatory or scarring response to said devices since, in layman terms, the devices are covered in something akin...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html?_r=0 Anybody heard about the Breakthrough Starshot announcement? Looks like they're heading for Alpha Centauri within a few decades. Even if the launch will not succeed, I think...

I first found about Art Bell and his shows when I scanned Youtube for spooky stories (it's kinda my work background noise for a few months now). His belief system is kinda, well strange I guess, but I like how healthy he sees my country (it's neither good nor bad). For me, he's like that...

Context: My gf is planning to study "R" to be even more competent (I find that INTJ's just don't stop learning) and I thought it would be great if I can accompany her by learning another computer language with her. I've looked at Python since it's probably the most basic language there is. It...

I'm currently studying your food stamps and welfare (which I think should continue). However, I found a rather appalling revelation: PhD's in Food stamps. These hard-working, overqualified people are forced to meager living when they're supposed to be working on various R&D and academic...

I find it a strange habit of mine. It seems that I'm in it for the struggle and subsequent accomplishment but I'm quite uninterested when it comes to the award itself. For example, it was my graduation for the "undergraduate" diploma level for my Master's degree (my course is ladderized so I...

By Inner Demon, I mean the part of you that prevents you from acting on things that will develop your life. It is still you whether you like it or not. Since I'm a fan of Tsukihime, I'll call the demon PYRO as oppose to me, Pyro. I happen to look on self-talk and confronting your inner demon...

I just found an article explaining why members of my age group are so morose: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-unhappy.html Since most of us here are in that age group (no offense to the older ones, I highly value your inputs and wisdom) I thought you might want...

Pressure at work has made me consider quitting due to my boss (June 2015 at the latest). I can tolerate the workload but not considering my office staff's and my well-being is just too much. Anyways I'm thinking of the following routes (note that my goal is to migrate to a country that has...

Our family discussed immigration during our New Year's Eve celebration. They said that it might be best that I migrate somewhere since I don't have a girlfriend yet (also having a member of the family migrate improves that family's prestige). So far the choices provided were Australia (because...

It was unfortunate enough that my curiosity got the better of me and I watched the Me!Me!Me! video. Warning: The Know your meme entry is slightly NSFW while the real video (not linked here) is EXTREMELY NSFW. Aside from its NSFW material, the video is a jab at the otaku culture and their...

I remembered having a thread here about how hard it is for students to work with a lot of student debt. Perhaps aspiring students can study overseas instead of in their country of origin. I got this idea when I learned that some of the students here are going to study at England. Some of the...

I think I found my morning motivational band :) Metal is awesome and metal mixed with history is even more awesome. Heh, I never knew there was such a thing as a Swedish Empire before I listened to their songs. Anyways this is the vid that introduced me to the band...

I'm thinking of starting a hobby that can also be used to generate inventions. They'll probably involve electronics or robotics but I'm not sure which sub-field. Income generated by my job could use a little boost (wooing is expensive) and I want to have fun at the same time. Any suggestions? *...

I guess surviving Supertyphoon Rammasun has taken a toll on me and my worklife. While I did survive the storm, its damage seriously hampered my work. Imagine being at the office for two days without electricity and Internet. You only watch helplessly as more and more work piles up. Today...

Question is in the forum title. A few nights ago I have a dream where a friend and I was discussing how we can colonize the moon. We opened a blueprint/map thing where the diagrams are projected as some sort of 3d object. One of the colony modules are algae tanks that are arranged in an...

There's a frat related killing again in our country. A student from a top university was found dead since he didn't survive the hazing. I really hate using hazing to prove one's (toxic) masculinity* and their loyalty to their new brotherhood. Aren't brothers ought to protect one another rather...

What type of music do you listen too to ward off distractions and focus on your work? I usually play Nightcore and Eurodance videos off Youtube. They are loud enough to shut the world off and the rhythm helps me keep my own work tempo up as well. Side effects include swaying and head-bobbing...

I'm usually a pain to watch drama series with since I'm usually criticizing the plot or the actors while the others are bawling their tears out. However, I am quite moved by war movies and stories especially cavalry charges like the Charge of the Light Brigade and last stands. I'm also moved...

I was surfing 9gag today when I saw a post regarding the Waukesha, Wisconsin stabbings. In summary, two 12 year old girls tried to stab another girl to death (19 times) after luring the victim to the woods. The victim somehow managed to survive and got rescued by a cyclist while the first two...

Okay guys. It's your turn to interpret my dream: Last night I dreamed of being carried up in the by a large (~7-8 feet) and naked woman. The dream has a greyish tone so she looked more like a statue more than anything else. She reminds me of ancient Greek sculptures with their braided hair...

I just came back from a rather harrowing 1-day workshop as the resource person (rather than the guy handling the photos/ minutes) on another University. I was shit-scared most of the time (especially during the actual teaching of the techniques) since I'm working with unfamiliar academics and a...

As I said before, my intelligence and INTP personality has been a curse. Anyways, I thought that people will like me more if I try to seal off some of my skills (I can't even draw great anymore :( ), do half-assed work and act stupid to appear more "normal". Obviously people didn't buy it. They...